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2024-03-02T07:16:53-08:00

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Am I going to hell because I’m bisexual?

Last updated on: March 2, 2024 at 7:16 am By John Shore

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(The following is excerpted from the book Ask John: John Shore’s advice column from the Asheville Citizen-Times, 2016-2019.) Question: I was baptized a fundamentalist Christian. I’m beginning to think that I might be bisexual. John, will I go to hell if I am? Answer: Finding an answer to this question will inevitably mean answering it for yourself. Ultimately there’s just no other way. People have always contemplated, pontificated and bloviated on the afterlife. But no person, no matter what... Read more

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2022-08-04T08:00:33-08:00

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Call me when it’s National Grab Some Nuts Day

Last updated on: August 4, 2022 at 8:00 am By John Shore

Yesterday all Patheos bloggers received an email from Patheos suggesting “trending topics relating to your faith” that we might care to write about. The first writing prompt had to do with the fact that August 1 was International Childfree Day (which “celebrates people who voluntarily choose not to have children”). We were given four questions on that topic to choose from. I haven’t posted anything new on this blog in (in Internet years) four centuries. So I figured I’d just... Read more

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2020-08-26T06:55:02-08:00

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My novel won Best New Fiction by American Fiction Awards

Last updated on: August 26, 2020 at 6:55 am By John Shore

Hi, friends. Wanted to share with you the good news that my debut novel, Everywhere She’s Not has won the 2020 American Fiction Award for Best New Fiction. Earlier this year it was also named a finalist for both the Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize and the First Novel Prize at the Indie Book Awards. I blogged here on Patheos for years, and I know how many people who came to know me from this site embraced and supported the novel. So... Read more

Everywhere She's Not

2020-07-08T08:12:51-08:00

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Christians shouldn’t get depressed? What BS.

Last updated on: July 8, 2020 at 8:12 am By John Shore

"Any person who makes a point of telling you how God feels about you wouldn't know God from hollow gourd. Feel free to shake off such people like the proverbial dust from your shoes. Makes going forward a lot easier." Read more

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2020-07-04T10:19:47-08:00

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Can this born-again gay Christian woman find happiness?

Last updated on: July 4, 2020 at 10:19 am By John Shore

I want to share with you a letter written to me by a lesbian Christian. Here it is: (more…) Read more

Christian Issues

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2020-07-10T05:53:54-08:00

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Why don’t more Christians act like Christ?

Last updated on: July 10, 2020 at 5:53 am By John Shore

Dear John, Why do you think it is that so many people who say they’re Christian are okay with acting in ways that are the opposite of what Christ stood for? (more…) Read more

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2020-07-10T05:54:51-08:00

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I’m in an open marriage. Can I still call myself a Christian?

Last updated on: July 10, 2020 at 5:54 am By John Shore

Dear John, I am an unfundamentalist reader with a question for you about faith and sexual choices. (more…) Read more

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2024-02-26T07:55:11-08:00

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Where and how Trump is taking us all

Last updated on: February 26, 2024 at 7:55 am By John Shore

I haven’t seen where anyone else has said what I’m about to (although I have to assume many have: there’s only so much news one can take in), so I won’t feel like I did my job during this phase of our collective lives if I don’t say it at least once. (more…) Read more

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2020-02-13T14:38:52-08:00

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You Will See That I Have Left

Last updated on: February 13, 2020 at 2:38 pm By John Shore

You Will See That I Have Left a short story (in letter form) by John Shore Dear Ronny, I know that you were right when you were admonishing me before you went to the deacon’s meeting about how no good as a wife I’ve been to you since last week when daddy died. I know it has not been easy for you to have me always so lost to myself since that happened. I know you need all my love... Read more

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2019-12-31T12:02:31-08:00

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The Very Best New Year’s Resolution

Last updated on: December 31, 2019 at 12:02 pm By John Shore

On the day of New Year's Eve, a guy overhears his dad talking smack about his wife. Read more

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